Safety attachment



(No Model.)

G. L. HOHNSTEDT. SAFETY ATTACHMENT.

N0. 423,687, Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

A TTOHNE rs UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE L. HOHNSTEDT, 'OF URBANA, OHIO.

SAFETY ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,687, dated March 18,18 90.

7 Application filed December 13, 1889. Serial 110.333,!322- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. HOHNSTEDT, of Urbana, in the county of Ohamp'aign and State of Ohio, have invented a new and improved Safety Attachment for Cost or Price Tickets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved means for the secure and safe attachment of cost or price cards or tickets to fabrics of various kinds, the object being to provide a simple, oheap,convenient,andreliabledevice,whereby price or cost marked tickets may be quickly attached to goods in a safe manner.

To these ends my invention consists in the peculiar construction of a safety-pin and its combination with a price or cost marked ticket, and goods to which the ticket is attached, as is hereinafter described and indicated in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a price or cost ticket'and the safety attaching-pin in normal shape before. attachment. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the safety pin and an edge;view of a ticket to which the pin is connected. Fig. 3 is an edge view of goods in fold, a price-card in vertical section, and the safety attaching-pin inserted in the goods. Fig. 4 represents the ticket in section, folds of goods, and a safety-pin bent to secure the ticket thereon; and Fig. 5 is a view of the safety-pin attachment secured in the goods, the bent ends and folded loop bearing on these points being displayed.

A indicates a price or cost mark displaying ticket of the usual shape and material, cardboard being generally employed forits manufacture.

The safety attaching-pin B is made of wire, which is coated with non-oxidizable material, or the metal employed in its construction may be non-corrosive in nature. A single piece of wire is used, which is out of suitable length and pointed at the ends so that the terminals may be readily inserted through pliable fab ric of any kind to which a ticketv is to be affixed. The wire strand B, when prepared as stated, is given an open bend near its center of length, so as to form two limbs a, parallel and properly separated, a rounded loop being produced at a, where the material is bent. The material of the attaching-pin is now in staple form, and near the middle of the limbs a a return-bend b is made in each in planes which are parallel to each other and at right angles to the main bend a. There is sufficient space allowed between the bent portions of the limbs a to receivea card or ticket A and hold it embraced, and at cthe portions 19 of the limbs, which were upwardly bent to produce the bends b, are outwardly bent, these ends inclining upward a proper degree, for a purpose which will be presently explained.

When the card or ticket A is to be atfixed to goods, a certain number of folded portions 0 of the same is grasped by the operator and the pointed ends 0 are, inserted through the folded goods at a proper distance from the side edges of the folds O, the upward inclination of the ends 6 facilitating the insertion and disposing the wire limbs so that the projecting portions of the limbs may be easily bent toward the side edges of the goods, the points 0 being made to approach each other, as shown in Fig.5. The loop portion a of, the safety-pin is now in the position shown in Fig. 3, while the terminal ends are as represented in Figs. 4 and 5. The final bend is now given to the attaching device B by folding the loop portion a down upon the points 0, so that these will be secured from catching upon other goods or the hands of a party handling the piecesof material bearing the ticket.

There are marked advantages obtained by for insertion, and when in connection with goods it holds a card fixedly, while the .points of the pin are protected by the action of completing the attachment of the device to the material.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A tag-fastener consisting of a pin having the limbs 64, the loop a at the upper ends of the limbs, the loops 1) at about the middle of the limbs and at right angles to the loop a, and theioutwardly-projecing portions 19 substantially as described.

2. A'tag or ticket provided with a pin having the limbs a, the loop a, projecting above the tag or ticket, the loops b at right angles to the loop ct and receiving the tag or ticket, and the portions 12 projecting outwardly from the tag or ticket, substantially as described,

whereby when the portions 1) are passed1o through the material to which the tag or ticket is to be attached the said portions and loop a can be bent down against the material, with the portions under the loop, as set forth.

GEORGE L. HOHNSTEDT.

WVitnesses:

JOSEPH W. FLAUGHER, R. S. MORGAN; 

